Medicine: The Smallpox Scare

In Manhattan and its surrounding counties, by last week, there were
eleven cases of smallpox (including one death) traceable to a visiting
Mexican (TIME, April 21). Health officials hoped that the situation was
under control. But up & down the eastern seaboard, plain citizens were
taking no chances:

¶ In Manhattan, people queued up by the thousands, sometimes in lines
five blocks long, for vaccination. By week's end, despite a shortage of
vaccine, more than 2,500,000 of the city's 7,500,000 had been
vaccinated. The city had appropriated $600,000 for smallpox fighting.